Liver Physiology
The liver supports almost every organ in the body. Liver is prone to several diseases due to its strategic location and multidimensional functions. The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body and performs many vital functions to keep the body pure of toxins and harmful substances. The liver is thought to be responsible for up to 500 separate functions, usually in combination with other systems and organs. The liver metabolises both beneficial and harmful substances. It stores nutrients and other useful substances, as well as detoxifies harmful compounds. Toxic compounds can be excreted from the body in bile through the liver, in urine via the kidney, or by other means. It deals with the organization structure, metabolism and functions of Liver. It can cover vast topics in this regard for instance digestion, secretion, absorption, metabolism etc. The liver is central to a multitude of physiologic functions, including clearance of damaged red blood cells, nutrient and vitamins management, synthesis of plasma proteins, clotting factors, biotransformation of toxins, hormones, and drugs, vitamin & mineral storage. The Journal of Liver: Disease & Transplantation addresses both the liver pathology and liver transplantation. JLDT stands among the liver journals in the globe, publishing articles related to liver studies. The major areas of journal include advances in liver diseases, liver trauma, portal hypertension and adult and pediatric liver tumors, hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer, alcoholic liver damage, fatty liver, metabolic and genetic liver diseases, autoimmune liver diseases, liver transplantation and techniques, surgical complications and transplantation outcomes.